Nutrients in flowers and corms of the saffron crocus

Researchers have used ICP mass spectrometry and gas chromatography to examine the nutritional properties of the flower organs of saffron crocus that have been frowned in two cultivation fields. Saffron crocus flower seeds consists a variety of mainlyunsaturated fatty acids of dietary value and different varieties of fats that has tendency to absorb toxic metals from the soil. 

Saffron crocus (Crocus sativus L.) belonging to the family Iridaceae, is a perennial autumn flowering plant unknown in the wild and widely cultivated for its flowers with trilobal scarlet styles from which it derives the saffron spice well known around the world for its aromatic and medical properties. Its pollen is sticky because of a pollenkitt layer that the nurse cells (tapetum) of the anthers deposited on the pollen exine.